APC inaugurates FCT executive committee

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has inaugurated a 25-member executive for Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), even as it inaugurated its AMAC secretariat.

While inaugurating members of the new executive, the chairman of the party, Hon. Abdulmalik Usman urged them to embark on mass mobilisation and registration of new members that will place the party in a good stead in future elections.

He further said new members who will be issued the permanent voter’s card will bring about the change which Nigerians desperately need.

Usman said the APC in the FCT will do everything necessary, be it room-to-room or house-to-house campaign to ensure that residents, including those in the most remote parts of the FCT, are mobilised for registration.

His words: “Your task is to ensure that the slogan of the party which is change starts from you as a leader and it will be extended to your followers in all the wards. Your first assignment is to go around the wards, mobilising and sensitising the people, reminding them of the need to have their voter’s card.

“The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will commence issuance of the new permanent voter’s card for those that were underage during the last registration and who have come of age now. It will be your job to encourage them to register.

“Mobilising people to register for their voter’s card will be the weapon that we will use to effect the change that we yearn for. There will be no change without the voter’s card and the card remains the only weapon that we can use to change the government of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“You will have to do whatever it takes; if it is a door-to-door or house-to-house campaign to mobilise our people at the grassroots to make sure that we come out en masse to get that weapon which is our voter’s card for use on Election Day to chase these people out of power, you have to do it.”

On the Ekiti election Usman said: “The Ekiti election is a lesson to both parties. We all know that during the Ekiti election, the PDP government used the military to make sure that they scare people from coming out to vote. In this particular election and the general elections, it cannot happen because the number of the military in this country cannot take the equal number of what was sent to Ekiti if sent to all states. So, there will be a free atmosphere for Nigerians to vote.”

One of the members of the executive, Emma Ezeazu who donated cars and motorcycles to ward chairmen said: “I donated the cars and motorcycles to make the party stronger, to build it and to make it stand a better chance to perform well in future elections. We will mobilise our party members and others to register and collect their cards.

“Nigerians need to understand the need to have a strong opposition, without which our democracy will not grow. Whatever I’m doing is to strengthen the opposition so that there will be a great competition for the benefit of the people.”

AMAC APC Publicity Secretary, Yunusa Hassan, explained that AMAC executive comprises 25 members drawn from the different wards. He also said there are areas where motorcycles are not permitted in the municipal council. This, he said, informed the provision of cars for some ward chairmen while others were given motorcycles.